If anybody I know knows about the Swakopmund Reparations Walk, it'd be Bruno Arich Gerz. As for people I don't know, have a look at Andreas Selmeci and Dag Henrichsen, Das Schwarzkommando: Thomas Pynchon und die Geschichte der Herero (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1995). John - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l